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Gregor Mathes
Gregor Mathes is a PhD student and analytical palaeontologist at the University of Bayreuth and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research interests include conservation palaeontology, analytical macroecology, and data science. He applies novel statistical tools to the fossil record to gain insights about Earths history. Using this information about the past, he focuses on the conservation of recent biodiversity under current climate change.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Analytical Palaeobiology
University of Bayreuth
Bayreuth
Current - 2019
- Working on climate-biodiversity interactions using mixed effect regression models and machine learning algorithms
- Additionally contributing to various research projects of other team member covering sports ecology, macroecology, and geology. Providing help for programming, statistics, and data visualisation
- Uni-Website
B.S., Analytical Palaeobiology and Earth System Research lab
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2019 - 2018
- Thesis: The effect of palaeoclimate interactions on the extinction risk of organism
- Focus on statistics, programming, and academic skills
B.S., Geology
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2018 - 2013
- Thesis: Diagenesis of Halimeda
- Focus on palaeobiology, applied sedimentology, and geochemistry/ petrology
Abitur
Hans-Sachs Gymnasium Nuremberg
Nuremberg
2013 - 2005
- Thesis: Die Alpen - Paradebeispiel plattentektonischer Prozesse
- Focus on German, Mathematics, English, History, and Physics
Industry Experience
Gregor Mathes is a member of the Conservation Paleobiology Network and currently chair of the training series sub-committee. He is a private lecturer at the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung e.V. providing talks and classes on climate change and Earths system.
Lecturer
Hanns-Seidel Stiftung
Kloster Banz
Current - 2019
- Lecturer for one week workshops covering topics such as mass extinctions or climate change
Teaching Experience
Lecturer
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2020 - 2019
- Served as TA for foraminifera lecture in the microfossils cource of the master program “Analytical Palaeobiology”
Data Warehouse Solution
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2019 - 2018
- Created a data base for the thin section collection of the Faculty Palaeobiology
- Data base environment based on WissKI
Lecturer
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2019 - 2017
- Invited talks on carbonate microfacies during the internationally renowned Flügel-Course
- Focus on foraminifera and thin sections
Selected Data Science Writing
Gregor Mathes regularly blogs about data science, statistic, and data visualisation on his blog
Rethinking Chapter 2
Personal website
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2020 - 2020
- Second part of a series where I work through the practice questions of the second edition of Richard McElreaths Statistical Rethinking
- Bayesian statistics
Rethinking Chapter 2
Personal website
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2020 - 2020
- First part of a series where I work through the practice questions of the second edition of Richard McElreaths Statistical Rethinking
- Bayesian statistics
Introduction to ggplot2 (Part 1)
Personal website
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2020 - 2020
- Workshop on R’s ggplot package for data visualisation for the palaeobiology master students at Uni Erlangen
Introduction to ggplot2 (Part 2)
Personal website
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2020 - 2020
- Workshop on R’s ggplot package for data visualisation for the palaeobiology master students at Uni Erlangen
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change
Nature Ecology and Evolution
N/A
2020 - 2020
- Authored with Jeroen van Dijk, Wolfgang Kiessling, Manuel J. Steinbauer
- Currently in revision
Biodiversity turnover controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change
YOMOS 2020
N/A
2020 - 2020
- Online conference
Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change
Conservation Paleobiology Symposium
University of Bologna
2020 - 2020
- A talk on the first project in my PhD schedule
A novel approach to define evolutionary units in Phanerozoic reefs
Conservation Paleobiology Symposium
University of Würzburg
2019 - 2019
- A talk about a project from my master program
Anthropogenic impacts on benthic foraminiferal assemblages, Oahu, Hawaii
Forams 2020
University of Edinburgh
2018 - 2018
- A poster presentation at my first academic conference.
Selected Awards and Honors
Best student talk
Conservation Paleobiology Symposium
Bologna
2020 - 2020
- Presentation title: Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change
Master thesis with distinction
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2019 - 2019
- Awarded for master theses with an overall grade below 1.2
Invited talk on carbonate microfacies
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2019 - 2019
- Invited talk at the international course on carbonate microfacies about foraminifera and their applications
Winner of the 1st FAU International Science Slam
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen
2018 - 2018
- The Faculty of Sciences hosted FAU’s first International Science Slam. Presentation title: Warning: the following presentation may contain foraminifera